Bruno Voisin schreef op 07-04-2008 14:24:
> On 7 avr. 08, at 13:52, Alex Hamann wrote:
>>> was anybody capable of compiling the latest miktex tools for unix?
>> My make failed with miktex-2.7.2960 under Tiger 10.4.11, cmake 2.4.8
>> and libcurl 7.18.0
I tried but failed to compile miktex 2.7. Then I went back to version
2.5 which works fine both under Tiger and Leopard.
> Before people invest too much time attempting to mix mpm with MacTeX:
> mpm (MikTeX's Package Manager) isn't intended to work with TeXLive and
> in the long run may cause inconsistencies inside a TeXlive installation,
> depending on where you instruct it to put updated packages (say
> /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist, or /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local,
> or ~/Library/texmf), with updates to TeXLive replacing or not the
> package updates installed by mpm.
The combination of mpm with gwtex always worked perfect for me.
> In email exchanges on the MacTeX mailing list, Karl Berry, one of the
> chief TeXLive architects, has advocated several times against mixing mpm
> with TeXLive. Actually, the TeXLive team has been working on a new
> infrastructure and tool to make interim package updates for TeXLive,
> pretty much the same way as mpm does but compatible with TeXLive. The
> work isn't finished yet, but it's hoped to be in place for this year's
> TeXLive release (whenever that might be).
I think this is a very relevant development in the tex-on-mac scene, but
until it materializes I would nevertheless suggest to go for mpm if you
want to keep your tex distribution somewhat up to date.
Best regards
Jasper.